[geeks] NFS across 3COM 2500

[James Sharp]

> On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 10:48:39AM -0400, Michael Dombrowski wrote:
> > I'm having some problems running NFS across my 3COM Lanplex 2500. The 
> > server is a Linux machine on the FDDI net. The Lanplex connects the 
> > Fast Ethernet and FDDI networks in my house. A machine on the 
> > ethernet side can see the files on a NFS mount but not use them. This 
> > happens with OpenBSD, HP-UX and Solaris clients. It's not been a 
> > problem so up until now because all of my "real" machines are on FDDI 
> > where NFS works perfectly. But my HP 712/100 hath no FDDI and there 
> > is no way to get FDDI on it so I'm rather stuck. Anybody have any 
> > suggestions as to how to get this working?
> 
> On the client side, reset the default NFS packetsize to be smaller took care
> of my problems.  But, my problems were that I could use files on the server,
> but it lost most packages relating to file useage.
> 

Sounds like IP fragmentation may not be turned on on your 2500.  I don't remember where in the menus you set it up, but make sure its on.